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Jakyl25 posted...

https://twitter.com/david_j_roth/status/1141793288690765827?s=21

The man the Mets just hired as their pitching coach is 82 years old. He was a very well-respected pitching coach in the 1980's and an All-Star in the 1960's, but this is a level of Wilpon Shit that I honestly did not think was attainable.

I was reminded of this topic

Take issue with the fact they fired their pitching coach because their bullpen has pitched like shit the entire year, despite producing a the Cy Young last year. This has literally nothing to do with the pitching coach. Jeff Wilpon and Brodie did not do enough to address the glaring bullpen issues, and it showed. Their response for their own failure to build an even subpar bullpen was to fire coaches. They were presened with solutions to fix this problem all offseason, and all the way through June until Kimbrel and Keuchel and Gio signed. They took none of these opportunities. Yes, those last 2 are not bullpen but obviously signing starters give you room to add from starting depth (which they also do not have) to relief depth. This happened because THEY REFUSED TO INCREASE THE BUDGET FROM LAST YEAR DESPITE PROMISING WIN NOW. THEY STEAL INSURANCE MONEY AND DONT REINVEST IT BACK IN THE TEAM.

Dont focus on the wrong shit @Jakyl25 This. Is. Only. On. Jeff. Wilpon.
It literlaly makes no difference who the hell the pitching coahc is when you DO NOT SIGN ANY VIABLE PITCHING DEPTH , especially for an injury prone crew.

They went into the season with literally 3-4 question marks in the bullpen, and literally no one in the ENTIRE SYSTEM who can fill in if ANY PITCHER GOT HURT AT ALL.

Putting an 82 year old as your interim pitching coach is far far from the most "wilpon shit" thing ever.
The most Wilpon Shit thing ever is literally every single fucking other thing they've done to dismember this team over the last 27 fucking years

I say all this also really liking the content David Roth puts out there. He is staunchy anti-Wilpon and calls him out on all his shit. Yes this is a bit of an odd decision, and its probably laden in the fact he played with Sandy Koufax and the dodgers, who was Fred Wilpon's childhood team, but it literally affects team performance 0. it's a waste of time to focus on that.

Focus on their failure to build a bullpen out of cheapness, ineptitude, lying, and lack of caring. Focus on the fact that they intentionally FORCE THEIR PLAYERS TO PITCH THROUGH INJUIRES.

Focus on the fact that they RUN EVERY ASPECT OF THE CLUB. THEY MEDDLE IN EVERYTHNG. I am not just saying this. This is literally reported like anywhere you can find.

Fuck sake, look at this article from 2003-
http://a.espncdn.com/mlb/news/2003/0721/1583481.html

"Mr. Jeff Wilpon has decided that he's going to learn how to run a baseball team and take over at the end of the year," Doubleday told the newspaper. "Run for the hills, boys. I think probably all those baseball people will bail."

(Doubleday, the former part-owner who left it in full to Wilpons).

Jeff Wilpon is one of the worst things to ever happen to any sports team.
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